Getting food? The perfect opportunity to hang out with someone new and talk to with, you mean?

"Cool, same! If we're staying on a new planet, we've got to try the food!" Tidus has found his target. Come now, Idia, move along with Tidus, who'll suggest, "Think we should go this way?" with a point, start for it, but won't go far without Idia.

"Name's Tidus, by the way. How long you been around?"

His hair is hard to miss - he's definitely seen that around at least one time. Unless he hides it.